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(The comic book I write was intended to be very loosely based on the following short story, but ended up being something wholly different.)

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The next day we took a train to London and checked into the comfortable Dorset Square Hotel. After we were all checked in, we took the tube to St. John’s Wood station and walked over to the EMI/Abbey Road studios and did the typical tourist thing where you get your picture taken walking across Abbey Road. We’re such Beatles fanatics, we just had to do it. Then we took an official tour — the “Beatles Walk” — to see all the Beatles-related sites around that part of London. For fans like us it was the best part of the whole trip.

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We left the Balmoral early and drove north to Stirling.

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After we checked out of our hotel in Stratford (the day before yesterday), we visited a flea market they had set up along the Avon river outside of our hotel. We did a bit of shopping and then drove on up to Nottingham.

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We just got back from a wonderful performance of The Merchant of Venice performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre across from our hotel here in Stratford-upon-Avon. It was one of the best Shakespeare productions I have ever seen. I’m glad I got to see it here in the city where Shakespeare lived.

This morning we had breakfast at Thornbury Castle and then drove north through the Cotswolds, stopping at Sudeley Castle and then at Hidcote Manor Gardens along the way. Very scenic, lots to see, we took a lot of pictures on the way to Stratford. I only got lost once while driving. Now I’m hungry, but nothing around here serves hot food after 6pm. Apparently the English don’t get hungry late at night. I guess eating five meals a day will do that to you.

Next: Robin Hood, James Herriot, and onward to Scotland…